Legal Opinion
Damselle, Ltd. v. 500-512 Seventh Avenue Associates
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided June 18, 1992PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Beverly Cohen, J.), entered April 4, 1991, which granted the motion of defendant Holmes Protection of New York, Inc., to vacate a default judgment on condition that its attorneys pay plaintiff $1,500, unanimously modified, on the law, the facts and in the exercise of discretion, to increase the amount to which plaintiff is entitled to $3,000, and otherwise affirmed, without costs.
In light of the strong policy favoring the determination of actions on their merits (Scott v Allstate Ins. Co., 124 AD2d 481, 484), we find no abuse of discretion in vacatur of…
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